Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

William Kirby

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Dev Hynes

I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

Vladimir Potanin

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Frank Holmes

We operate in a very intensely regulated world, including the mutual funds we manage and our company, which is publicly traded. Jerry Rubinstein has unique technical knowledge and skills; he is a CPA and an attorney. Furthermore, Rubinstein has tremendous entrepreneurial experience in the capital markets with leadership roles in several industries, ranging from oil and banking to the music industry.

Sean Quinn

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.

Jack Stephens

We are consistently one of the fastest-growing banking companies in Virginia.

Anthony Burgess

There is lots of scope for European banking deals.

Nancy Gibbs

If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

Philip Hammond

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

Tony Pina

We came out boom, boom, boom and scored three runs real quick. For them to respond that way knowing they weren't playing real well, that's what good teams do.

Paul Eenhoorn

There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.

Paul Fassinger

We're not really talking about boom times by the bay. We're talking slow to moderate growth, but in the normal range of things.

James Buchen

When you're in a boom period, people are making money. When you're in a recession, you can generalize people aren't.

Steven Wieting

We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in consumer spending.

Matt Thornhill

Those cars have boomer sensibilities in how they're designed.

Laisenia Qarase

We are in the midst of the greatest investment boom Fiji has ever seen.

Bill Hader

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

Donald Johanson

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

C. V. Raman

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

Nikola Tesla

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Nikola Tesla

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

Henry David Thoreau

There are a thousand at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Randy Bachman

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

Ron Eglash

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Lawton Chiles

We have the power to make the other branches of government really angry,

Jon Thorn

The outlook for the remaining quarters of the year is quite clear and the momentum will be continued. Generating such cash flows will help the company in its plans to make its refinery the world's largest.

Keith Collins

We probably really are not going to get a test on what happens with cattle prices until we get into next week, and we start to see the normal resumption of cash market trading,

Vance Coffman

We are deeply disappointed with this reduced outlook for our company. This level of earnings and cash generation is unacceptable for Lockheed Martin.

Rafael Ramirez

We are not handing out cash in any of these deals. The state's shares are class A, the majority and with a different power of decision-making.

Lee Iacocca

Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.

Birdman

Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Dan Packer

We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort.

Red Herring

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

Chelsea Clinton

Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.

Feist

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

David Martinez

We played well in the first half. But Lake did a good job of changing up their defense in the second half, and this got us in trouble.

B. F. Skinner

We played a number of games with only six guys, and obviously had some success. Roles, not only are they changing and they're being defined, but the guys are trying to adjust. It's not always as simple as you like.

Lindsey Harding

We play a lot of pressure man-to-man defense. But as far as changing up what we do, we don't want any team to get comfortable with our defense.

Carla Korbes

There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.

L.A. Reid

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

Jeffrey Young

We are dealing with some very fundamental scientific issues of how to work with magnetic materials in an integrated circuit or on a chip. This is fundamentally changing the way we fabricate and integrate magnetic materials into existing communications circuitry.

Jonathan Todd

We are not moving the goalposts as has been suggested. We are not changing our demands.

Seinabo Sey

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12.

Bruce Rauner

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

Jan McDonald

We are not playing the rest of the season due to an insufficient number of players.

John Jewell

Wherefore your poor subjects' most humble petition to your highness is, that the laws touching such malefactors may be put in due execution.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

Jim Smith

There are three large refineries that have been shut down since Katrina that are due to come online at the end of this month. That bodes well for lower prices.

Richard DeKaser

There are not a lot of surprises here. We knew February will be a down month in spending after a torrid January due to mild weather. This is exactly what we got.

Michael Hughes

We have had a strong run, largely pushed by the miners and energy stocks. Perhaps these sectors are due to take a break.

Peggy Noonan

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

William Safire

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

Chino Moreno

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Tom Golisano

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

Nadia Ali

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

Brendon Urie

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

Mike Gonzales

With the electronic age, we wanted a way to help keep our members informed on what is going on.

Carl Thayer

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

Gary Numan

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Daddy Yankee

'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

Tamara Tunie

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Fernando Torres

After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

Valentina Matviyenko

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

Vaclav Klaus

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Lord Robertson

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

Tim O'Brien

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

Michael Panzner

You always get a little first trading session euphoria, which is partly psychological and partly technically related to inflows.

Martin Freeman

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

Richard Artschwager

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

Herman Frazier

We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.

Gertrude Stein

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Patti Stanger

I had a breast reduction.

Craig Carper

Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

John Carioba

If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.

David Stern

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season

John Collins

Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift.

Tanya Fischer

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Nancy Marchand

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

Campbell Scott

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

Charlie Melancon

We know very little about the role that you played,

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.